Fort Payne News

A 21-year-old Fort Payne man is behind bars charged with 2nd degree rape. Officers say he was arrested for raping two 14 year old girls.

Old Tymer's Blues and Barbeque in Fort Payne suffered minimal damage when its smokehouse caught fire Friday afternoon.

DeKalb County realtor Charlotte Gentry got quite a surprise Sunday night when she felt a sharp pain in her toe and looked down to discover a poisonous snake at her feet.

Fort Payne, Alabama, police say they have solved a 23-year-old murder case. Investigators say they believe Larry Dyar killed 25-year-old Mark Allen Phillips in 1986 in an act of revenge.

A man accused of sending more than 1,600 sexually explicit text messages -- commonly known as "sexting" -- to a teenage girl is out on bond.

Fort Payne police have solved a 1986 murder case, but say the resolution is bittersweet for everyone involved.

A Fort Payne man was charged with a sexually related crime for the second time in as many months Thursday.

Authorities finally closed the book Friday on a 23-year-old Fort Payne murder case.

A California congressman took aim and fired at Fort Payne from the floor of the U.S. House late Thursday night over $150,000 to renovate the city's first building.

For 40 years, Jerry Whittle covered the news. On Tuesday, he found himself making it.

Police have identified the 3-year-old boy fatally injured in an all-terrain vehicle as Will Ryder McCrary of Skyline.

The Fort Payne City school board made some additions to student handbooks Monday at three schools.

The Fort Payne Career Center will open a satellite office at Northeast Alabama Community College sometime in July to meet the ever-growing needs of DeKalb's unemployed.

Tennessee investigators are trying to determine if heat contributed to the death of a Tennessee Valley man at the Bonnaroo festival last week.

When Fort Payne police responded to a Sunday morning call, they found underage drinking, a large crowd and loud music, according to Police Commissioner Ron Ogletree's office.

News a Fort Payne police officer was forced to shoot and wound an aggressive dog recently is certainly troubling.

Construction is set to begin on the old Fort Payne Coal and Iron Building as early as fall.

TVA officials and some Rainsville residents have different opinions about the meaning of the phrase 'power to the people.' TVA held an open house at Broadway Baptist Church in Rainsville Thursday afternoon to detail plans for a proposed new substation for Sand Mountain Electric Cooperative and construction of up to three miles of power lines to ...

Published: Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 4:11 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 4:16 p.m. A Maryland man was arrested Wednesday by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department for possession of heroin after he was stopped for speeding on Interstate 59 near Fort Payne.

Brady Davis closed 2-for-3 with a double, homer and three RBIs recently as Cooper Hosiery downed Southern Hosiery 8-6 in the Fort Payne Parks and Recreation Department's 11-12-year-old baseball league.